Thursday, March 17, 2011

Do you remember all the driftwood I collected on Table Rock Lake? Well I decided to create a lamp out of all of it. I've been crushing on driftwood adorned lamps and mirrors for some time now, so I wanted to try my hand at creating one for myself.

This is a similar lamp that is $326.00, ouch that hurts, a little (ok, a lot) out of my price range.

I used a lamp that I already had, I bought this at Lowe's several years ago, for around $35.00. It is the perfect type of lamp to start with, skinny middle and modern shade.

This is all the driftwood I collected...I used two pieces of floral wire, wrapped with brown floral tape to hold everything in place. I don't want this to be permanent, you know how easily I bore. :)

I took the shade off and started holding the driftwood in place, finally using the wire to hold everything tight.

It took about twenty minutes, if that, and the shade was ready to go back on and it's ready to place.

On the studded dresser is where the lamp usually resides, so I put it back there. In front of Mom's antique mirror, now I'm ready for some accessories.

Artwork courtesy of Logan, milk glass vase of tulips, little eggs in a terrific turquoise color and a cute owl that I found at Kolh's of all places, I put him under a vintage clock dome.

Anyway, enough blabing, I love how it turned out....what do you think?

Thanks so much for stopping by! I hope you are inspired to create your own driftwood lamp!

I am a beach lover and love to see natural elements brought into a home. I love what you did to the lamp. It looks perfect. I love the way you mixed different elements and accessories on the chest of drawers to compliment it - lovely contrast. Beautiful.

wow, I saw a piece of driftwood just a few days ago and loved the look. I thought that I needed to incorporate it into my home and future post(!), but couldn't at the time think of anything creative!! So amazing! Love i!tjuliesfreshperspectives.blogspot.com

anytime you can save $300 and come up with something so lovely is a good day in my book...well done...would love for you to share this with my readers on fridays unfolded @ http://www.stuff-and-nonsense.net/2011/03/fridays-unfolded-10.html...now following.

first, i want to thank you for your visit and i am so sorry for your loss this summer. i too can cry over dogs i adored 20 years ago... love is love, thats all i can say~

next, this could not be a better project for me, i have been looking and looking for beachy lamps, but the $4-600 price tags bother me... this is a brilliant idea, now i just have to hope i can find some pretty driftwood :)